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What were Civil Wars solders doing in Pensacola, Florida? What do you do when primary source documents about the same event tell different stories?

Students use Civil War diaries, an essay from Zora Neale Hurston, and advertisements from World War II to examine the raw materials of Florida history. These lesson plans for grades 4-12 are correlated to the Sunshine State Standards.

 
TERRITORIAL FLORIDA 1821-1845
   
 
  Go to "Seminole Portraits."   Seminole Portraits - Color portraits of Seminole leaders and chiefs.
 
 
CIVIL WAR IN FLORIDA 1861-1865
       
  Go to "Florida in the Civil War."   Florida in the Civil War - Read letters, diaries ("I forgot to mention that President Lincoln and some of his cabinet were assassinated on Saturday night.") and official records.
 
 
POST-CIVIL WAR FLORIDA 1865-1913
       
  Go to "Images of Florida and the War for Cuban Independence, 1898."   Images of Florida and the War for Cuban Independence, 1898 - Florida, the closest state to the Caribbean and home to a large Cuban immigrant population, became the setting for much of the action in Cuba's fight for independence from Spain.
 
  Go to "Mary McLeod Bethune."   Mary McLeod Bethune - Mary McLeod Bethune founded the Daytona Normal and Industrial School for Negro Girls which is now Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona, Florida. Read the transcript of an interview for an unfinished biography.
 
 
THE FLORIDA BOOM AND BUST, 1919-1929
       
  Go to "Richard A. Twine Collection."   Richard A. Twine Collection - Images of the St. Augustine community of Lincolnville between 1922 and 1927. Lincolnville was the heart of the black society in St. Augustine. The Emancipation Day Celebration was the most famous event that Twine photographed.
 
       
DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL YEARS IN FLORIDA, 1930-1941
       
  Go to "Zora Neale Hurston, the WPA in Florida, and the Cross City Turpentine Camp."   Zora Neale Hurston, the WPA in Florida, and the Cross City Turpentine Camp - Zora Neale Hurston was already a published writer when she began working for the Florida division of the Work Projects Administration (WPA). In August of 1939, Hurston went on a recording expedition to the turpentine camps in Cross City, Florida.
 
       
FLORIDA IN WORLD WAR II, 1941-1945
       
  Go to "Florida During World War II."  

Florida During World War II - Letters, telegrams, advertisements and brochures depicting life during World War II.

 
       
CONTEMPORARY FLORIDA, 1960-
       
  Go to "Images of the Civil Rights Movement in Florida."   Images of the Civil Rights Movement in Florida - These images document civil rights protests to integrate buses, stores, theaters, and beaches.
 
  Go to "Roxcy Bolton, Pioneer Feminist."   Roxcy Bolton, Pioneer Feminist - For three decades, Roxcy Bolton was Florida's leading women's rights activist. Read letters challenging the practice that many restaurants had of keeping a separate "men only" section.
 
  Go to "Reubin O'Donovan Askew."   Reubin O'Donovan Askew - The thirty-seventh Governor of Florida took the controversial stand of supporting busing to end school segregation. Read letters from politicians, citizens, and students both supporting and opposing the governor's stand on desegregation.
 
  Go to "Lucreaty Clark, White Oak Basket Maker."   Lucreaty Clark, White Oak Basket Maker - Clark learned to make white oak baskets from her parents. Originally these sturdy baskets were used to hold cotton and carry vegetables. The tradition of white oak basket making has been carried on by Lucreaty Clark's grandson, Alphonso Jennings.
 
  Go to "Netmaking and Net Fishing in Florida."   Netmaking and Net Fishing in Florida - Longtime net maker and Fernandina resident Billy Burbank III discusses the history and practices of the net making trade.
 
  Go to "Seminole Doll Making."   Seminole Doll Making - Seminole doll maker Mary B. Billie and her daughter, Claudia C. John, discuss the history and practices of Seminole doll making.
 
  Go to "Sacred Harp."   Sacred Harp - Documents and audio recordings in this unit are primarily drawn from The Sacred Harp Sing, a slide and tape show created by the Florida Folklife Program in 1978, and field recordings by Alton Morris in 1949 in Gainesville, Florida.
       

 

 

 



NEW RESOURCES AND UPCOMING EVENTS
Slideshow at the State Library and Archives of Florida   Reverend C.K. Steele   2010 Florida History Fair
Slideshow at the State Library & Archives of Florida - February 5, 2010
  Reverend C.K. Steele
  Resources for the 2010 Florida History Fair
 
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